What did cavemen do with their dead?

Question

Did they bury them?

Answer 1

Archaeologists have found evidence that the Neanderthals buried their dead. Before that cavemen just left the dead out in the open. The documentary "Walking with Cavemen" shows this as well as this site does also.

Answer 2

Prior to neanderthal, they were simply just left where they fell. Neanderthal graves have been found containing not only the bones of the dead, but items like bone ornaments, stone knives or axes and even the remains of flower petals, indicating htat they ahd some rudimentary understanding of what later became a belief in an after life. Subsequent species of homonids (Cro-Magnon and later Homo-Sapiens) were know to bury their dead with much more elaborate grave goods and there is even the suggestion that there may have been some sort of actual ceremony among those early ancestors of man.

Answer 3

There is substantial evidence that points to many groups of prehistoric people not only burying their dead, but that they also interred them with artifacts both personal and ritualistic. The methods of burial differed from group to group. Some were buried laying down, some upright. some curled into fetal positions, and others were buried in cloth or skins, funeral jars, or under piles of rock or cairns.